Cardiff, Ira D.

Head of Botany and Plant Physiology Department at State College of Washington in Pullman, 1913-1917; head of Washington State Agricultural Experiment Station, 1914-1917; pioneer in the study of plant diseases in eastern Wash.; moved to Yakima, Wash., where he founded the Washington Dehydrated Foods Company; well known as an outspoken atheist and iconoclast and published several books with these themes/